And your all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)

Jane Eyre. A Town like Alice. Rebecca.A prayer for Owen Meany. The Good fairies of New York. When sisterhood was in Flower. Heidi. The Faraway Tree(especially Dame Slap - no fun now she’s Dame Snap. Blahh)

What are your working habits when you write?

Procastinatory

Are you the edit-every-sentence-ten-times type, or do you prefer to let rip?

Ten times? Why so little?

Your ultimate writing ambition?

To publish work that people want to read. To win every literary prize known to man woman and child - The Nobel prize for literature would be an acceptable start

Your worst habit?

Try to be decent (generous of spirit etc) but just don’t like enough people for societies approval. Might even be scared of bad fire if I hadn’t rejected RC when I was 9. They extolled magical consequences of 1st confession and then didn’t deliver.

Your opinion on the books industry?

Too much celebrity and hype, but good books still get through

Where do you write?

Anywhere

What else do you want Word Clouders to know? eg: do you have 9 cats / like paragliding / eat nothing but tinned fish / work in the bath / live in Kettering?